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Video Game Player Hospitalized

WCBE 90.5FM | By Jim Letizia
Published August 8, 2012 at 8:54 AM EDT

A Columbus teenager is hospitalized for dehydration following a four-day video game binge. Doctors say 15-year-old Tyler Rigsby locked himself in his bedroom to play the game, emerging only to use the bathroom and to eat.  Doctors say Rigsby had low blood pressure and reduced oxygen to his brain. 
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Jim Letizia
Jim has been with WCBE since 1996. Before that he worked as a reporter at another Columbus radio station, and for three newspapers in Southwest Florida.
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